L&K Kerst 2005

Happy Holidays and a happy New Year to all of you!

 

 

Materials:

  • Plugins: VDL Adrenaline: Snowscape: here. Harmonix: here. Snow Flakes: here. Install these plugins in your PSP plugin folder.
  • Goldpattern (we thank the creator): here, extract this to your PSP Pattern folder.
  • Picture frame: here, extract to your PSP picture frame folder
  • Texture (we thank the creator): here, extract in your PSP texture folder.
  • L&K_kerst2005 presets here. PSP9: here, extract to your PSP preset folder
  • PSP images (we thank all creators): here, extract to a folder of your choice.
  • Horizontal Christmas image: here, lots of images: here. Extract to a folder of your choice.

As ever Joke made a beautiful script especially for this tut, you can find it here.
Thank you so much Joke :)) Take a look at her site: here
The snowgif is in the zip provided, so you don't have to make it.

 

Preparation:

  • go to materials - foreground colour
  • set your foreground colour to very dark red #480000
  • set your background colour to #ae0101 (red)
  • make a foreground / background gradient, following settings:



  • go to the materials of your background colour
  • set it to your pattern gold embrossed_bg



  1. Open your Christmas image:

  2. Edit - copy (you can close the image).

  3. Open a transparent 550 x 350 pixels.

  4. Selections - select all.

  5. Edit - paste into selection

  6. Selections - deselect.

  7. Activate the tube of your Santa
    If your using your own tube - the one in the zip provided AED_CHECKIN-IT-TWICE_2003.pspimage is 552 pixels height - we only use a part of it.

  8. Edit - copy.

  9. Activate your 550 x 350 working image.
  10. Edit - paste - paste as a new layer.

  11. Use your move tool and place the tube to the left.



  12. Image - Picture frame - find your Windows 05, following settings:



  13. Effects - plugins - VDL Adrenaline - SnowScape, following settings:



  14. Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)

    Put this aside for the time being.


  15. Open a new transparant size 1024 x 450 pixels.

  16. Flood fill with your gradient.

  17. Effects - Image effects - Seamless Tiling; following settings:



  18. Open your Christmas tree kerstboom.pspimage

  19. Edit - copy
  20. On your working area
  21. Edit - paste - paste as a new layer.


    Leave the Christmas tree where it is, don't shove it!!


  22. Effects - Image effects - offset, following settings:
    you can also use the preset L_K_kerst2005_1 (If you are using PSP9 you have to fill in the values.)



  23. Repeat: edit - paste - paste as a new layer.

    Leave the Christmas tree where it is, don't shove it!!

  24. Repeat: Effects - image effects - off set, following settings:
    you could also use the preset L_K_kerst2005_2 (PSP9 users fill in the values:)



  25. Layers - merge - MERGE DOWN

  26. In your layers palette change the blendmode to Overlay



  27. Activate your magic wand:



  28. Click in the centre of your image; don't forget to select the small edges:



  29. Selections - invert

  30. Layers - new layer
    (Or your snow will be red)

  31. Effects - plugin - VDL Snowflakes; following settings:



  32. Selection - deselect.


    We're going to decorate the Christmas tree,
    please notice that the Christmas tree has two parts.
  33. Layers - new layer

  34. Activate your Picture tube tool: find your tube L&K kerstbal goud,
    scale 40!!!



  35. First decorate the two lower branches to the right as well to the left, as example given!!!

    You could choose to duplicate every ornament and use your move tool to place them.
  36. Layers - merge - merge all flatten.

  37. Layers - NEW LAYER

  38. Picture tube tool: L&K kerstbal, now change the scale to 35:



    Again you could choose to duplicate every ornament and use your move tool to place them.

    Now add the rest of the ornaments, don't forget the right side.



  39. Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)

  40. Layers - NEW LAYER

  41. Picture Tube tool: find your L&K kerstboom piek


  42. Click somewhere in your working area so your tube is on your image.
    Use your move tool and place the topornament on top of the Christmas tree. Zoom in a bit:



  43. Layers - new layer.

  44. Reactivate your Picture Tube tool: find your candles (aangestoken kaarsen)
    scale 10 for the upper candles and 12 for the lower ones:



    Remember to place the candles both to the right and the left side!!!



  45. Now joggle the material:



  46. Layers - NEW LAYER!!!!!

  47. Preset Shape Rectangle all boxes unchecked!!!



  48. Draw a rectangle on your image, as example given:



  49. Click on the D on your keyboar = your deform tool will show.

  50. Go to the presets of deform, find L&K_kerst2005_1



  51. Layers - new layer

  52. Again: activate your preset form rectangle:


  53. Again draw a rectangle, as example given:


  54. Reactivate your deform tool (the D on your keyboard); now find L&K_kerst2005_2

  55. Now the table is finished; merge all layers
    (layers - merge - merge all (flatten)
  56. Activate the window we started with:

  57. Edit - copy
  58. Activate your 1024 x 450 working area
  59. Edit - paste as a new layer.

  60. Use your move tool to place the window, as example given:



  61. Layers - NEW LAYER!!!!!

  62. Selection button (S on your keyboard)

    button: custom selection



  63. Fill in:



  64. Effects - Plugins - VDL Harmonix, Freq. value = 3.
    The first slide totally up.
    COLOUR: because my border will be gold, my colour is #cfaf6b



  65. Selections - float (zoom in a bit now)

  66. Flood fill:

    Flood fill the selection with your gold pattern.


  67. Selections - deselect.

  68. Activate your magic wand:

  69. Click in all four the parts, as example given:



  70. Set your foreground to the dark colour and close your gold pattern:



  71. Flood fill the selection, use your dark colour:




    KEEP SELECTED!!!!

  72. Set your foreground colour on your bright colour:



  73. Go to material - check the box Texture
    Find your XMAS 42 texture, following settings:



  74. Flood fill with your texture.

    KEEP SELECTED.

  75. Effects - 3D effects - dropshadow, following settings:
    or preset:L&K kerst 2005 (PSP9 users, fill in the values)



    KEEP SELECTED!!!!

  76. Effects - Illumination effects - Lights; following settings:



  77. Selections - Deselect.

  78. Now activate the girl tube provided (or one of your own, height approx. 400)

  79. Edit - copy
  80. Activate your 1024 x 450 working area
  81. Edit - paste as a new layer.

  82. Use your move tool and place to your likings.

  83. Now copy the tube of the glass (or your own one) and the Xmas ornament (or use your own one)
  84. Edit - paste as a new layer on your working area.

  85. Again use your move tool and place to your liking:



  86. Hide your foreground colour, set your background to the gold pattern:



  87. Activate your text tool, font Boulevard, following settings:



  88. Place the text:


  89. Effects - 3D effects - dropshadow, following settings:



  90. Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)


    BACKGROUND

  91. Open a new transparant 1024 x 450 pixels.

  92. Find your gradient, - foreground colour #480000; background #ae0101



  93. Flood fill with your gradient.

  94. Effects - Image effects - Seamless Tiling, same settings:



Save both files and fill in the script, the snow gif is in the zip provided. Save the script and the gif in the same folder.

Joke, thanks for all the work you did for us :))

Mountain scripting you can find here.

Love, Lisette, Karin, Mac